Combined plow and fertilizer-distributer.



FATE-NEED JAN. 21; 1908.

J. B. HICKS. COMBINED PLOW AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1907.

. q% k I UNITED STATES PATENT: oiurron.

.TOHNB. HICKS, OF WOLF PIT TOWNSHIP, RICHMOND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

COMBINED PLOW AND FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed September 9 1907. Serial No. 392.017.

" zen of the United States, residing at Wolf as will be more fully described and 'Pit township, in the county of Richmond and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in a Cone bined Plow and Fert' izer-Distributer; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in combined plows and fertilizer distributers.

The object of the invention is to' provide a device of this character having means whereby a fertilizer may be distributed on both sides of a furrow, and means whereby the feed of the'fertilizer may be regulated.

A. further object is to provide a fertilizer distributer having a plow connected therewith,'and means to adjust the angle of the plow blade.

With these objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construc tion, combination and arrangement of parts articularly pointed out in the appended cl dims.

In the accom anying drawin s, Figure 1 is a side view 0 one side of a pl ow and fertilizer distributer constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side; Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinalsectional view; Fig. 4 is a handles, 2, by suitable brace bars, 4. The bottom of the .ho per is closed by a curved or 5, in which are formed passages bee beam, as

segmental feed p ate, two discharge passages, 6, said ing arranged on each side of t shown.

On the underside of the hopper and communicating with the discharge passa es, 6, are downwardly-projecting, outward y-diverging discharge spouts, 7, towhichare connected flexible depending feed tubes, 8,

which extend downwardly into close proximity to the ground.

Below the feed late, 5, is arranged a slidably-mounted va ve or cut-off plate, 9, -to the rear end of which is pivotally connected the lower right-angularly bent end of an operating lever, 10 which is pivotally mounte ed on one side of the hopper and has connected to its upper end an operating rod, 12,

handles, as shown. The rear end of the operating rod 1.2 is provided with an eye, 14, which forms a handle, whereby the same is conveniently operated. The lever 10 is held in position and guided in its movement by means of a guide loop, 15, arranged on end. The forward end of the hopper3 1s securely braced and connected to the forward end of the beam by inclined brace rods, 16, and by an angular iron strap, 17.

Journaled in depending bearing bars, 18, secured at their upper ends to the beam, 1, is a supporting wheel, 19, by means of which the forward end of the beam is supported. The bars- 18 are braced by obliquely disposed brace bars, 20, secured at their upper ends to the beam and at theirlower ends to said bearing bars, asshown. On one end of the shaft 21, of the supporting wheel, 19, is fixedly mounted a sprocket wheel, 22, which is connected by a sprocket chain, 23, with a sprocket wheel, 24, on one end of an agitator shaft, 25, which is revolubly mounted in suitable bearings arranged in the lower end of the hopper. The shaft 25 extends transversely through the hopper adjacent to its lower end and is provided with'a series of radially-projecting agitator fingers, 26, which are preferably llattened at their outer ends and provided on their inner ends with threads, by means of which they are detachably engaged agitator shaft, as shown.

hopper 3 and immediately in front of the lower ends of the handles, 2, is a-plow standard, 27, the standard being preferably formed by a pair of fiat metal bars, 28, the upper ends of which are arranged on each clamping bolts, 29, between the upper one of which, and the top of the beam, is arranged 'a wear-plate, 30. The plow standard, 27,-is further connected to the beam 1 by an inwhich extends back through a guide loop, 13., arranged on the inner side of one o the with screw-threaded passages formed in the,

side of the beam and are secured thereto by one side of the hopper ad acent to its upper Connected to the plow beam in rear of the clined brace bar, 31, the lower end of which is bolted between the bars, 28, of the standard, while the up er end is bolted to the lower .side of the p ow beam. Between the lower ends of the bars, 28, is pivotally connected the forward end of a plow shoe, or runner, 32, the rear end of which is adjustably supported by means of an adjusting rod 33, the upper end of which is threaded and passed through a vertically disposed aperture in the plow beam, and on the rod adjacent to the upper and lower sidesof the beam are arranged adjusting nuts, 34, which, when screwed up or down on the threaded end of the rod, 33, will raise or lower the rear end of the shoe or runner, 32. On the forward end of the shoe or runner 32 is secured a plow blade or shovel, 35, the position of which is regulated by the adjustment of the rear end of the shoe, 32, thus providing for plowing a deep or shallow furrow.

By providing the double discharge passages and feed tubes for the fertilizer hopper, the fertilizer is distributed on both sides of a furrow and is covered by the plow arranged on the rear end of the beam.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A combination fertilizer distributer and low comprising a beam, a fertilizer hopper aving discharge passages formed therein on each s1de of said beam, a valve plate slidably mounted beneath said hopper to regulate the size of said feed passages, an operating lever connected to said valve plate, an operating rod connected to said lever, an agitator shaft revolubly mounted in the hopper, agitator fingers arranged on said shaft to feed the fertilizer through the passages in said hopper, a supporting wheel revolubly mounted in suitable bearings on the forward end of said 1 of the fertilizer hopper, a plow shoe or runner pivotally mounted in the lower ends of said standard, a plow blade or shovel secured to the forward end of said runner, and a vertically disposed adjusting rod ,connected to the rear end of the runner, whereby the same is raised or lowered to regulate the position of the plow blade or shovel, substantially as described.

2. A combined fertilizer distributer and plow, comprising a beam, a fertilizer hopper arranged on the latter, said hopper having discharge passages on each side of the beam, a plow standard secured to said beam in rear of the hopper, a plow shovel on the lower end of said beam, flexible feed tubes connected with the discharge passages in said hopper and adapted to discharge fertilizer in front of and to each side of the plow shovel whereby the latter will open the furrow between the line offertilizer deposited by the tubes, a valve plate slidably mounted beneath said hopper to regulate the size of the discharge passages therein, a pivoted operating lever connected to said valve, an operating rod connected to said lever and extending back to within reach of the driver, an agitator shaft in said hopper, and radially disposed agitator fingers or blades, detachably connected to said shaft, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. HICKS. Witnesses:

A. W. OEKEY,

TH. CovINe'roN. 

